Portrait of Saint Thomas Aquinas, with halo, quill pen and Bible, in a decorative border of foliage and gilt. Vignettes of Saint Leobinus, Bishop of Chartres, Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Empress, Saint Casimir Jagiellon, Prince of Poland, and Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop of Nyssa. Chromolithograph from Legende Celeste, nouvelle histoire de la Vie des Saints, Celestial Legend, Lives of the Saints, Paul Mellier, Paris, 1845. Chromolithograph by Jules Desportes, professor of lithography at the Institut Royal des Sourds-Muets.

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